Someone opened the door of the room and called out: “Hello!
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

"Their disapprobation of the rites and ceremonies enjoined by the English government was a prominent means of leading them to the discovery, and stimulating to the successful vindication of the principles of religious and civil liberty.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

they had also killed one cock of the Mountains Capt. Clark now wrote me a discription of the river and country, and stated our prospects by this rout as they have been heretofore mentioned and dispatched Colter on horseback with orders to loose no time reaching me.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I found Colter here who had just arrived with a letter from Capt. Clark in which Capt. C. had given me an account of his peregrination and the description of the river and country as before detailed from this view of the subject I found it a folly to think of attemping to decend this river in canoes and therefore to commence the purchase of horses in the morning from the indians in order to carry into execution the design we had formed of passing the rocky Mountains.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

TREPLIEFF locks the door on the right and comes back to NINA.
— from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The division suggested by Thomas into the Philistine, Bohemian, and Creative types, while suggestive, is obviously too simple for an adequate description of the rich and complex variety of personalities.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Henry the Fourth, of Germany, asserted the right of investitures, the prerogative of confirming his bishops by the delivery of the ring and crosier.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Before this, however, he seems to have been carried away by boyish dreams of the romance and chivalry of a soldier’s life, and to have become a young guardsman.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

The doom of the Regent and Council shows singularly the total interruption of justice at this calamitous period, even in the most clamant cases of oppression.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Colonel Gordon turned to the door of the room, and catching sight of Miss Pearse, motioned quickly to her.
— from Captain Lucy in France by Aline Havard

The Polypodiaceæ , distinguished by the ring or annulus, which more or less completely girts the sporangia, offer so much variety of structure that it becomes necessary to subdivide them; and for this purpose characters derived from the form, number, or position of the sporangia, or the structure or development of the ring, are chiefly relied on.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

While the boats containing this division were being rowed ashore, the other two divisions on the right and center, commanded by Brigadier Generals Whitmore and Lawrence, made a show of landing, in order to divide and distract the enemy.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

Real Presence , the assumed presence, really and substantially, in the bread and wine of the Eucharist of the body and blood, the soul and divinity, of Christ, a doctrine of the Romish and certain other Churches.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

They succeed in bringing away the bride; but the cheat is discovered on the road; a contest arises, and the whole affair ends in a horrible slaughter.
— from Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations With a Sketch of Their Popular Poetry by Talvj

An' there lived out over the hill, in a din o' the rocks, a crafty ould felly iv a fox.
— from Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

He had encountered it in New York, but never had the destructive force of it impressed him as it did on the ripe and charming lips of the woman before him.
— from Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

When the treaty was made in 1855 it was the understanding that whenever the Indians should settle down on the reservation, adopt civilized habits, and clear a few acres of land, good titles would be given to them by the government.
— from Ten years of missionary work among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington Territory, 1874-1884 by Myron Eells